Pub Date : 2020-09-18DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11290
Adam Mrozowicki
The article is a commentary on the report by Matteo Gaddi (2020) on working conditions within Italian FCA Group. It reviews the commented paper with regards to research methodology and the presentation of the cases studied. It points to the need to explore the developments in the FCA in a broader institutional context of the Italian industrial relations as well as the global spread of the lean production as ideology and practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-18DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11400
Riccardo Emilio Chesta
This introductory essay puts the sociological debates on FIAT in perspective, by showing the relations between the evolution of the Italian multinational and the changes in the practice of sociological inquiry. At several junctures, the debate on FIAT has been so publicly relevant that it became a difficult and somehow hostile terrain for the development of a “quiet and cold” explanatory sociology independent of any positioning in the field of contention. But this is exactly what makes the relation between the Italian automobile factory and sociology a specific one, a privileged perspective through which it is possible to look not only at the changes in the world of labor, but also at the evolution of the discipline over time.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-18DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11312
E. Bojesen
Listening to students is not only often a deficiency in educational theory, but also for educational leaders, policy-makers, teachers, parents, and educational actors in society more broadly. This article outlines this problem while suggesting that educational conversations that occur "within" the context of institutions can afford particular benefits to their participants and the institutions themselves. Topics of interest specific to the institutional experience of individuals, including those that are highly critical of them, can be developed in non-linear and non-efficiency-orientated directions, in a manner that is both individualised and pluralistic.
{"title":"The Future of Institutional Listening: Conversation in the Cracks of the University","authors":"E. Bojesen","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11312","url":null,"abstract":"Listening to students is not only often a deficiency in educational theory, but also for educational leaders, policy-makers, teachers, parents, and educational actors in society more broadly. This article outlines this problem while suggesting that educational conversations that occur \"within\" the context of institutions can afford particular benefits to their participants and the institutions themselves. Topics of interest specific to the institutional experience of individuals, including those that are highly critical of them, can be developed in non-linear and non-efficiency-orientated directions, in a manner that is both individualised and pluralistic.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"14 1","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48080187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.15
Marián Kika, Ján Kollár
{"title":"K niektorým otázkam rozhodovania slovenských domácností","authors":"Marián Kika, Ján Kollár","doi":"10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"52 1","pages":"354-373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46277289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.14
Milan Fico
Tools for Better Statistical Inference. Analysis of P-Curves and Equivalence Testing. File-drawer effect, selective data reporting and additional data adjustment often lead to publication bias in social sciences. This text deals with two techniques diminishing consequences of these negative phenomena. P-curves can distinguish relevant publications from nonsignificant ones and help us to select information base for formulation of next research goals. Another presented technique is equivalence testing. Focused on the falsification of hypotheses, it helps better explore trivial results and makes them more informative. Both techniques support informative value of results so that the conclusions of statistical inference are more valuable. Sociológia 2020, Vol. 52 (No. 4: 323-353) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.14
{"title":"Nástroje na zlepšenie štatistickej inferencie – analýza p-kriviek a ekvivalenčné testovanie","authors":"Milan Fico","doi":"10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.14","url":null,"abstract":"Tools for Better Statistical Inference. Analysis of P-Curves and Equivalence Testing. File-drawer effect, selective data reporting and additional data adjustment often lead to publication bias in social sciences. This text deals with two techniques diminishing consequences of these negative phenomena. P-curves can distinguish relevant publications from nonsignificant ones and help us to select information base for formulation of next research goals. Another presented technique is equivalence testing. Focused on the falsification of hypotheses, it helps better explore trivial results and makes them more informative. Both techniques support informative value of results so that the conclusions of statistical inference are more valuable. Sociológia 2020, Vol. 52 (No. 4: 323-353) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.14","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"52 1","pages":"323-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42865171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-07DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.4.16
Branislav Šprocha, Roman Džambazovič
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Pub Date : 2020-08-02DOI: 10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11475
M. Kenney, J. Zysman, Dafna Bearson
The rise of the platform economy marks the latest phase in the ongoing digital revolution. Indeed, the platform is to this digital era what the factory was to the industrial era, both a symbol and an organizing mechanism. Gernot Grabher and Jonas Konig (2020) used Karl Polanyi’s analysis of what he termed the “great transformation” to frame the rise of platform economy. The platform economy is remarkable as it confirms Polanyi’s (and Marx’s before him) insight that the reach of the market is based upon increased commodification as it has been able to reach into ever more parts of social life. We introduced the term “platform economy” in 2015 because we recognized that the digital platforms were changing the dynamics of capitalist accumulation – an analysis framed by regulationist school of political economy. The intuition was that the socio-technical innovation of digital online platforms was the critical fulcrum for an economic restructuring that would rewire the flows of data and ultimately money and power. The firms we have termed the "mega-platforms", Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have become the most valuable and powerful firms in the world. Importantly, the reach of these platforms is global and yet local and personal. Moreover, this platform power has only been reinforced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
{"title":"Transformation or Structural Change? What Polanyi Can Teach Us about the Platform Economy","authors":"M. Kenney, J. Zysman, Dafna Bearson","doi":"10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/11475","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of the platform economy marks the latest phase in the ongoing digital revolution. Indeed, the platform is to this digital era what the factory was to the industrial era, both a symbol and an organizing mechanism. Gernot Grabher and Jonas Konig (2020) used Karl Polanyi’s analysis of what he termed the “great transformation” to frame the rise of platform economy. The platform economy is remarkable as it confirms Polanyi’s (and Marx’s before him) insight that the reach of the market is based upon increased commodification as it has been able to reach into ever more parts of social life. We introduced the term “platform economy” in 2015 because we recognized that the digital platforms were changing the dynamics of capitalist accumulation – an analysis framed by regulationist school of political economy. The intuition was that the socio-technical innovation of digital online platforms was the critical fulcrum for an economic restructuring that would rewire the flows of data and ultimately money and power. The firms we have termed the \"mega-platforms\", Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have become the most valuable and powerful firms in the world. Importantly, the reach of these platforms is global and yet local and personal. Moreover, this platform power has only been reinforced during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":35251,"journal":{"name":"Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas","volume":"14 1","pages":"227-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46929663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.10
M. Haman, M. Školník
Socioeconomic or Political Variables? The Determinants of Voter Turnout in Czech Municipalities. The article contributes to the debate on the relationship between voter turnout and socioeconomic and political variables at the local level in the Czech Republic. We investigated the 2018 Czech municipal elections. We constructed an original dataset composed of 6,229 municipalities. Also, we created a second dataset consisting of 205 municipalities with extended jurisdiction and Prague, which included a composite Index of quality of life (including variables that are part of development indices such as health, economic indicators, education, and many others). From a methodological point of view, we used statistical methods such as ordinary least squares regression to analyze data. We find that a higher quality of life in a municipality is positively associated with a higher voter turnout. Furthermore, the running incumbent does not have an effect on voter turnout. We find that the presence of at least two candidate lists in smaller municipalities increases voter turnout by 10 %. Also, we confirm that municipalities with contest-free elections (the number of candidates is equal or less than assigned seats) have much lower voter turnout. Moreover, the increase in the number of candidates per voter also increases voter turnout, which may be due to the personal ties with candidates. Sociológia 2020, Vol. 52 (No. 3: 222-244) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.10
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.12
M. Martinkovičová, Miroslava Knapková, A. Kaščáková
Affective Well-Being of Private Sector Employees in Slovakia. The primary aim of the paper is to present selected results of an original representative survey of the use of time in Slovak households, in which one of the methods of determining the affective component of subjective well-being was used for the first time in Slovakia. Based on the recommendations of the harmonized research on the use of time, we identified extremely positive emotion (happiness) by the means of 24-hour monitoring of the allocation and use of time for paid work, unpaid work and leisure time during the working day and free day. For this contribution, we selected those respondents who are private sector employees. We evaluated and processed the perception of the affective component of subjective well-being (SWB) in terms of age categories of employees, gender, and household category. The research has shown that the hedonic component of SWB, meaning an extremely positive emotion, is the most common among employees in the 25-49 age group at performing unpaid work activities during the working day. Employed women perform more unpaid work and they feel more positive emotions during its performance than working men. Employees living in households with children up to 15 years of age feel more positive emotions at performing unpaid work activities than employees without young children. On the other hand, employees living in households without children (up to 15 years of age) experience more positive emotions during leisure time activities. Sociológia 2020, Vol. 52 (No. 3: 273-299) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.12
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.11
Daniel Kerekes
The City as an Onion? Case Studies of Electoral Geography in Prague and Warsaw. Electoral geographical research into urban territories shows a distinction in voting behaviour between a city centre and its surroundings. A recent exploratory study of the electoral geography of Prague found that distance from the city centre was the variable that best explained the spatial variation of votes, which might follow a concentric pattern and, thus, it recommended seeking a theoretical explanation in urban sociology, e.g. in the Burgess model of the city. Following this recommendation, I compared spatial patterns of voting behaviour in two cities – Warsaw and Prague. Using component analysis, I reduced the number of analysed variables to one for each city representing the main spatial polarisation. In Prague, voting behaviour showed a distinction between the city centre, inner suburbs and outer suburbs. While the city centre and the outer suburbs were conservative, the inner suburbs tended to vote for the left. This partially follows the Burgess model. On the other hand, the electoral geography of Warsaw showed a different structure. In this article I present a way of visualising urban electoral data in maps that avoid distortion caused by varying polygon size. Sociológia 2020, Vol. 52 (No. 3: 245-272) https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2020.52.3.11
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